Bloodlines

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When Adreanna Rodriguez was a kid, she was given a choice about whether or not she wanted to stay in her home state of California. It was a choice she’s reckoned with for her entire life. Today, over a decade after she made that choice - Adreanna takes us with her to North Dakota to find out… what could have been.

STORIES

Mulatto

Glynn’s brother wants him to take a DNA test but Glynn already knows he’s one part Luna and one part Midnight.

Produced by Pat Mesiti-Miller, original score by Cheflee

Bloodlines

This story was supported by the USC Center for Health Journalism, which helps journalists investigate health challenges and solutions in their communities – reporting that serves as a catalyst for change.

BIG love to Adreanna’s mom, Sylvia, and her kid sister, Maudy.

Produced by Adreanna Rodriquez and Shaina Shealy

Original score by Renzo Gorrio

You can also hear this story on a new podcast from VICE Audio called Strongman. It’s a six-part series of intimate stories about power and control at every level... all over the world. It’s out now… subscribe & listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Special thanks to the incredible VICE squad: Adizah Eghan, Annie Aviles, Stephanie Kariuki, Joaqlin Estus, Karen Brown, Ivan MacDonald, and Catherine Stifter.

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This episode features music from Cheflee, check out more of Cheflees’s music at cheflee.bandcamp.com!

Sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 12 - Episode 14

Transcript

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0:00.0	Snap, judgment, studios.
0:19.6	A little while ago, my brother calls.
0:22.4	He wants me to take one of those DNA tests
0:25.2	that tells you where you come from or whatever.
0:28.5	You think I'm stupid, huh?
0:30.5	And let the man get my DNA to grow a clone off
0:33.9	in his lab somewhere, there's no thanks.
0:35.8	I've seen the movies.
0:37.6	But he's steady pressing me.
0:39.0	Come on, come on, I know you want to know.
0:42.1	Sign your DNA in.
0:43.8	But then no clone me.
0:45.2	You're the older brother.
0:47.7	Don't you want to know where we come from?
0:51.0	Where we come from.
0:55.8	And I think about my grandfather,
0:57.8	spending his youth living in a T.P.
1:01.0	His family listed in an official census registry
1:04.0	as being something called Molato.
1:09.1	I asked him, granddaddy, what's a Molato?
1:13.4	And he just laughed.
1:15.0	Like I told a funny joke.
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